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Convention returns to Washington after six years--President Taft
makes speech of welcome--Delegates show displeasure--Exchange of
letters between national officers and the President--Official
resolution of regret--Comment of _Woman's Journal_--Report of
association's vast work from New York headquarters--Great
Petition officially received by Congress--Mrs. Upton resigns as
treasurer--Memorial addresses for Mr. Blackwell and Wm. Lloyd
Garrison--Alice Paul on "militant" suffrage in Great
Britain--"Dorothy Dix" on The Real Reason why Women can not
Vote--Max Eastman on Democracy and Woman--Mrs. Harper's report as
chairman of National Press Committee--Hearings before Committees
of Congress; speeches by Dr. Shaw, Mrs. McCulloch, Eveline Gano
of New York on teachers' need of the vote; Dr. Anna E. Blount of
Chicago on professional women's need; Minnie J. Reynolds on
writers signing petitions--U. S. Senator Shafroth's notable
speech to Senate Committee--House Committee: Mrs. Raymond Robins,
Elizabeth Schauss, factory inspector; Laura J. Graddick of a
District Labor Union and Florence Kelley argue for the working
women's need of vote--Speeches of Mrs. Upton and Laura Clay.

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Convention in Louisville, Ky., celebrates victories in Washington
and California--Welcomed by Laura Clay--Mr. Braly tells of
California campaign--Mary Ware Dennett, new corresponding
secretary, reports world wide work--Caroline Reilly, new
chairman, describes press work in 41 States--Jane Addams, on
College League's Evening shows what women might accomplish with
the franchise--Dr. Thomas what the suffrage means to college
women--Dr. Harvey W. Wiley speaks on Women's Influence in Public
Affairs--Katharine Dexter McCormick on Effect of Suffrage Work on
Women themselves--Mrs. McCulloch on Equal Guardianship
Laws--Church needs Woman Suffrage--Mrs. Desha Breckinridge
discusses Prospect for Woman Suffrage in the South--Mrs.
Pankhurst receives ovation.

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Three victories celebrated at convention in Philadelphia,
suffrage gained in Or